Nevada County picayune., 1887-03-09
To Avoid Premature Old Age.

tiOn of senile diseases are all per soii;.l They should begin Tn youth. It should be q rule among grown up people never to subject children 10 mental shocks and uh- necessary griefS When: in the surroundings of the childs life, some grave calamity has occurred. it is best to make the event as light as possible to the child. and certainly to avoid thrilling 1t with sights and details which stir i to it's utmost, aud in lhe end oa'A leave upon the mind and heart il- curable wounds and expressions. Children should never be taken to funerals, nor to sights that cause sense of fear and dread combined with great grief, nor to sights which call forth pain and agony in man or in the lower animals.
 To avoid premature old age Ill mature life, the following are i'm portant points to remember:
 Grief anticipates age. Dwelling on the inevitable past, forming vain hypotheses as to what might have been if this or that had or had not been, acquiringa a craze for recountine what has Occurrcd- these acts do more harm to future health and effort than many other things connected with real calaml- ty. Occupation and new pnrsnits are best preventives for mental shock and bereavement. Hate anticipates age. Hate keeps the heart always at full ten sion. It give rise to expressions of the brain and senses. 1t con fuses the whole man. It rnbs the stomach of nervous power, and d. gestion being impaired, tie failure of life begins at once Those, therefore, who are born with thls passion-and a gooh many, l fear, are-sIiould give it up.
 Jealousy anticipates age. The facial expression of jealousy is old age, in however young face 1t may be cast Jealousy preys upon and kills the heart. So, jealous men are not only unhappy, but broken-heartea, and live short lives. have known no man of q l jealous nature live anything like a long life or useful one. The pre- yention of jealousy is diversion of mind toward useful and unselfish work.
 Unchastity anticipate age. Ev- erything that interferes with chas' tity favors vital deterioration, while the grosser departures from chastity, leading to specific and hereditary disease, are certain causes of degeneration and prema- 1 ture old age. Thus chastity is a preventative of senile decay.
 Intemperance anticipates age. The more the social causes of men tai aud physical organic diseases are investigated, the more closely the origin of degenerative organic changes leading to premature de, terioration and decay are Ines- toned, the more closely does it come out that lntemperance, often uot suspected by the person him. self who is implicated in 1t, so sub- tile is it's influence, is at the root of the evil.
 When old age has really com menced, its march toward final de cay is best delayed by attention to those rules of conservation by which life ia sustained with the 1 least friction and the least waste,
 The prime rules for this purpose are:
 To subsist on light but nutri' tious diet, with milk as the stand ard food, but varied according to seasons.
 To take food, in moderate quan tity. four times in the day, includ ing a light meal before going to bed.
 To clothe warmly but lightly, SC as that the body may, in all seasons, maintain it's equal temperature.
 To keep the hody in fair excr- else, and the mind active aud cheerful.
 To maintain ar. interest in what is going on in the world, and to take part in reasonable labors and pleasures, as though old age were not present.
 To take plenty of sleep during sleeping hours. To spend nine ] l. ... 1. 4. L. 4